HF 2225 (LSB 5983YH (3) 83)

HOUSE FILE 2225

BY  UPMEYER

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to expanding the purposes for receiving an automatic excuse from jury service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 607A.5, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   607A.5  Automatic excuse from jury service.

   A person shall be excused from jury service if the person submits written documentation verifying, to the court’s satisfaction, that any of the following:

   1.  That the person is solely responsible for the daily care of a person with a permanent disability living in the person’s household and that the performance of juror service would cause substantial risk of injury to the health of the person with a disability, or that the person is the mother of a breastfed child and is responsible for the daily care of the child. However, if the person is regularly employed at a location other than the person’s household, the person shall not be excused under this section.
   2.  That the person has served on a grand or petit jury two or more times in the previous ten years.
EXPLANATION
   This bill expands the purposes for receiving an automatic excuse from jury service.
   The bill provides that a person who has served on a grand or petit jury two or more times in the previous ten years shall be excused from such service.